On May 10th, 2025, officers responded to the parking lot of a Wendy's in Ocala, Florida after reports of a man carrying a rifle. When officers arrived, the suspect fled in a white Kia, leading police on a high-speed chase. >> He just signaled forward again into a sign 25th. >> STOP THE VEHICLE NOW. >> I THINK IN OCALA AND ANOTHER UNIT here when you need to be. >> 697, he's taking off again. Going eastbound >> 4281 8521 2281 AR 71 OPB 5 HE'S IN THE BACKSIDE OF THE BUS STATION LOT with the 11. >> Stop. STOP. [screaming] PUT THE GUN DOWN. PUT IT DOWN. NOW, I WILL SHOOT YOU. PUT THE GUN DOWN. [screaming] PUT IT DOWN. HE'S GOT A LONG GUN. >> GO AHEAD AND GET SOME MINUTES. >> JUST PUT IT DOWN. PUT THE GUN DOWN. NOW, I WILL SHOOT YOU. >> I DON'T THINK IT'S a real rifle. It's like an AR. He's doing it to himself, man. 4281 >> PUT THE RIFLE DOWN. ON THE GROUND NOW. >> WE GOT CHASING HIM WITH THE GUY. HE'S GOT A RIFLE. HE'S GOT THE RIFLE. 710 100 >> Put IT ON THE GROUND NOW. ON THE GROUND. >> WHAT IS WHAT IS YOUR LOCATION? >> HANDS BEHIND HIS BACK NOW. >> [panting] >> I'm directly in front of him. I've got him on the ground. Hands behind his back. Need a unit to me. I dropped my cuffs. >> [panting] >> Keep him right here. >> You have one on the ground. Is there any outstanding? >> 54 I got him right here. Taser deployed. I need a unit with cuffs. >> All right, where's the firearm, driver? >> He ditched it under a car. >> Back there? >> Charles is in 12 at signal 4. >> I'm 10-4. He's cuffed. He ditched the gun under a car a while back. >> All right, secure that signal 0. Give us a 20-5. >> 26 >> Back to you, summoning another group. >> Your handcuffs, head up. >> Yeah, I slipped up. >> Please advise if it's not worth the war over. All right, secure. He is smoking. We're getting fired from this. >> This one >> Hey, go clear up. Go clear up real quick. Go clear up. >> Yeah. >> Check this guy's thing. >> It's tough cuz every time he would I lose sight in the corner, he still had that long gun on him, so I had to like wide clear. >> This one? >> And he Every time I would peek the corner, he'd be trying to shove it in different places. He tried in the trash can. Ultimately shoved it under the car and kept running. >> Hey, bud, we're going to roll you over and sit you up, all right? >> I don't have cuffs. >> Here, sit up. >> Fell. Fell. Fell. My shoulder. >> You can just sit up. >> That's it. >> You pulling that? We can pull him out. A little bit of pain, man. Real quick. 1 2 3. You got to snatch it really quick. Real fast. There should be one down I thought I seen one. Yeah, just snatch it. Yeah. >> The motor blew in it within 2 weeks. >> That No, the other the other one. The one that the tag belongs to. >> Right. And that was registered and everything. The man sold me a lemon. So, I was going to let him get that car. That was going to be my backup car, but I was going to let him use that car. But, I needed to put it on the insurance Monday and have it registered. >> to let Bashon use this car. >> Right. >> All right. >> But, I told him that tag you know, all of that. Like, he couldn't do the tag. It had to be You had to switch the tag through the DMV. You can't just put it on another car. >> Got you. >> But, I guess he put it on another car. >> All right. >> And so, that car is now wrecked. >> Yeah. Do you know who he's beefing with right now? >> No. Nobody. >> Did he just get out of jail? >> Yes. >> How long ago? >> Not even a month. >> Recent. I was going to say it's been recent. Do you know what the charges were? >> No, I don't know official charges on any of it. >> Okay. >> Yeah, it's But, he he's still sitting in the car. He doesn't need to go to the hospital? No, no, he's not in there. >> Can't leave somebody in it. >> Oh, no, when I when I said I the car, I meant like our police car, not that car. No, we're not. >> No, not that car. So, he he he was in the police car, but he he's not going to the hospital yet. >> was going to the hospital. He's got to go get checked out. He was talking alert and everything, so. >> Okay. >> He was talking and and You said it was an elderly guy he was yelling at? >> Yeah, no, he was just talking to him. He was calling him uncle. He's not his uncle. I'm his mama, so I know that's not his uncle. >> Did he tell you he called him uncle or like does he say uncle this, uncle that? Did he talk to him directly? >> just laying. >> Okay. >> Yeah, just laying. >> Do you know what they were arguing about or talking at? >> They weren't arguing. They were just talking. I wasn't paying attention to nothing this man was saying. >> Uh-huh. And you were just trying to talk to him and he was saying >> to talk to my son and we got into an argument, so I left. >> So what what what what how did it turn into an argument? What did he say? >> With being him? >> Yeah. >> He's been getting on my nerves all day. >> Mhm. >> And I just didn't want to hear no more, so I started yelling. And when I started yelling, um he got pissed off. And when he got pissed off >> you say when you when you say he was being irritating you all day, I mean what happened what had you and him >> He's just annoying. >> What had you and and him at the >> At the No, he was at And I was um I was looking for him because my car was gone. >> How did you know he was there? >> Wait, at Cuz I I don't even know where he goes, but I know we used to live over here. >> Mhm. >> And he's only been home less than a month. >> Mhm. >> Um when he went to jail, we were living over here. So he may know people over here. >> Mhm. >> So I was just driving over here. I was just driving in circles basically, but I happened to come down this way and see him at And when I saw him at I blocked the car. >> Okay. >> And then we got into the argument and then I left, but I heard and then I saw the police coming. And from that point forward, I was just following the police. I've gone down all these side roads, you know. I turned around in the middle of the road, you know, because if y'all went this way and somebody was going that way, I followed the fastest car. And I just happened to see y'all here. >> Okay. >> And then I just pulled in and um at the bottom of my shoe not sure what happened because you know what's happening. >> Mhm. >> Um and I'm just thankful that he's alive. >> Yeah, I know. >> Because I know it could have went a whole 'nother way. And then I see the car and then I get worried again, and you say, "Nah, he's fine." You know, we're just going to take him to the hospital. He pulled himself out, you know. >> Yep. Yep. >> So, I don't know what what are the next steps? >> Reference to the car? >> No, I That car's gone. >> Okay, yeah. No, well, either way, we'll seize it cuz it's it's out now evidence of a crime. >> Okay, I can't do anything with it, so. >> Yep. >> Um but see, it's not in my name, either. It's still in the name of the person that Yeah, because we had to go and get off. Is this going to get them in trouble? >> No, I'm sure not. No. >> Okay. >> It's In In the end, it's still your car, but he was the one who was your son was the one who was driving it. So, in the end, he gets in trouble for everything that's chaotic that happened today. Now, I think there's two other crashes that he that he caused before he got to here. >> Two cars or like fences and stuff? >> Mm, cars. >> So, he went through this fence? >> Mhm. >> Look at that wall. See the wall? That's probably how he actually >> I need to go through I There's going to be a lot of charges on this guy. I'm going to start report writing after you guys are good with that, unless you guys need me to do anything. >> He was arrested on more than a dozen charges after he led police on a high-speed chase that ended with a rollover crash in a local apartment complex. He's facing charges of aggravated assault, aggravated fleeing of a law enforcement officer, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, tampering with evidence, two counts of criminal mischief, three counts of leaving the scene of a crash with property damage, resisting an officer without violence, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia.